“Sir, the shoes are mine only, but the footsteps were his,” Suryakumar joked when asked about stepping into Rohit’s shoes, before continuing on a more serious note. “It was not difficult. The way he left things, I got to learn a lot from him when I was playing under him. I followed the same strategy, the same funda, going into the dressing room, along with the experience of Gautam [Gambhir] which was also very vital.
